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Near-daily protests add to hardship in Greece

U.S. panel says no to prostate screening for healthy men

Family causes headaches for Peru’s leader

BY ADRIANA GOMEZ LICONAssociated Press

MEXICO CITY — Honduras and El Salvador have the highest homicide rates in the world as kill-ings reach a crisis point in Central America, a United Nations report said.

The study on homicides by the United Nations Offi ce on Drugs and Crime blamed organized crime for the region’s surge in violence.

Honduras had 6,200 killings in 2010 out of a population of 7.7 million people, while El Sal-vador with 6.1 million people had 4,000 homicides.

The 2011 Global Study on Homi-cide calculated a rate of 82.1 homi-cides per 100,000 people for Hon-duras and 66 per 100,000 people for El Salvador. Cote D’Ivoire in West Africa followed with 56.9 and the Caribbean nation of Jamaica with 52.1. The United States had a homi-cide rate of 5 per 100,000 people in 2009, the report said.

Honduras' Human Rights com-missioner Ramon Custodio said that he was worried about rising crime and feared worse fi gures are yet to come.

“We, Hondurans, have lost the right to live without fear,” Custodio said in a news statement.

He said the enemy in the 1980s was the army, police and secret corps, but now the threat is orga-nized crime.

U.S. offi cials say crackdowns on drug cartels in Mexico and Co-lombia have pushed gang activ-ity to Central America, which has long been a lucrative corridor for traffi cking.

Caribbean countries, most nota-bly Jamaica, have also been affected by drug-related violence, the report said.

Mexico has seen a 65 percent increase in killings since President Felipe Calderon launched his of-fensive against drug cartels in late 2006, the report found. The coun-try is considered part of Central America in the report.

Mexico had a homicide rate of 18.1 per 100,000 people last year, among the lowest in the region, although the 112 million-person

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BY GARDINER HARRISNew York Times Service

Healthy men should no longer receive a PSA blood test to screen for prostate cancer because the test does not save lives over all and often leads to more tests and treatments that needlessly cause pain, impotence and incontinence in many, a key government health panel has decided.

The draft recommendation, by the United States Preventive Ser-vices Task Force and due for offi -cial release next week, is based on the results of fi ve well-controlled clinical trials and could substan-tially change the care given to men 50 and older. There are 44 million such men in the United States, and 33 million of them have already had a PSA test — sometimes without their knowledge — during routine physicals.

The task force’s recommenda-tions are followed by most medi-cal groups. Two years ago the task force recommended that women

in their 40s should no longer get routine mammograms, setting off a fi restorm of controversy. The recommendation to avoid the PSA test is even more forceful and ap-plies to healthy men of all ages.

“Unfortunately, the evidence now shows that this test does not save men’s lives,” said Dr. Virginia Moyer, a professor of pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine and chairwoman of the task force. “This test cannot tell the difference between cancers that will and will not affect a man during his natu-ral lifetime. We need to fi nd one that does.”

But advocates for those with prostate cancer promised to fi ght the recommendation. Baseball’s Joe Torre, the fi nancier Michael Milken and Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former New York City mayor, are among tens of thousands of men who believe a PSA test saved their lives.

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BY FRANKLIN BRICENO AND CARLA SALAZARAssociated Press

LIMA — Peru’s President Ol-lanta Humala has kept public ap-pearances to a minimum in his fi rst two months in offi ce and strived to avoid controversy. Other members of his highly eccentric family, how-ever, do not share the president’s low-key style.

His father, Isaac Humala, is the outspoken founder of “ethnocac-erism,” which argues that Andean natives like him and his children are superior to descendants of the whites who colonized Peru and still dominate its politics and economy. The natives, he asserts, should be running the country instead.

Brother Antauro Humala is serving a 19-year prison sentence for leading a 2005 attempt to over-throw the government with an at-tack on a police post in the high-lands city of Andahuaylas that claimed the lives of four police of-fi cers and two attackers.

He laments that the president abandoned the militant socialist

ideals they once shared in order to get elected, telling The Associated Press “the government is every day more beholden to the right.”

Plenty of world leaders have relatives who embarrass them

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Homicides soaring in Central America, U.N. reports

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The Nobel Peace Prize was split three ways between Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, right, women’s rights activist Leymah Gbowee, left, from the same African country and democracy activist Tawakkul Karman of Yemen, center.

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Nobel Peace Prize goes to women’s rights activistsBY KARL RITTER AND BJOERN H. AMLANDAssociated Press

OSLO, Norway — Africa’s fi rst democratically elected female president, a Liberian campaigner against rape and a woman who stood up to Yemen’s autocratic regime won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in recognition of the importance of women’s rights in the spread of global peace.

The 10 million kronor ($1.5 million) award was split three

ways among Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, women’s rights activist Leymah Gbowee from the same African country and democracy activist Tawak-kul Karman of Yemen — the fi rst Arab woman to win the prize.

The chairman of the Norwe-gian Nobel Committee, Thorb-jrn Jagland, said that Karman’s award should be seen as a signal that both women and Islam have important roles to play in the up-risings known as the Arab Spring,

the wave of anti-authoritarian re-volts that have challenged rulers across the Arab world.

“The Arab Spring cannot be successful without including the women in it,” Jagland said.

He said Karman, 32, belongs to a Muslim movement with links to the Muslim Brotherhood, the Is-lamist group “which in the West is perceived as a threat to de-mocracy.” He added that “I don’t believe that. There are many sig-nals that that kind of movement

can be an important part of the solution.”

Yemen is an extremely con-servative society but a feature of the revolt there has been a promi-nent role for women who turned out for protests in large numbers. The uprising has, however, been one of the least successful, fail-ing to unseat President Ali Ab-dullah Saleh as the country de-scends into failed state status and

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BY ELENA BECATOROSAssociated Press

ATHENS — With no warning, a few dozen students blocked a major avenue in central Athens, marching slowly up the middle of the street to make sure motor-ists couldn’t get through. Tempers frayed, horns honked.

A driver revved his engine, swerved suddenly and charged up the sidewalk, narrowly missing a woman who jumped out of the way in alarm.

The scene during a student demonstration this week refl ected the increasing irritation and de-spair felt by many Greeks, weighed down by a fi nancial crisis that has led to repeated strikes and demon-strations as the government des-perately tries to avoid a default.

“It’s a catastrophe. This has

destroyed us,” said Nikos Trovas, who runs a parking garage just off Syntagma, the large square outside Parliament that has become the focus of protests. “The roads shut every day. So we just sit around here with the employees, looking at each other with no work to do.”

It is a curse for those who live or commute to the center of the Greek capital, once a vibrant showcase of what many hoped was a dawn of economic prosperity.

As the chanted slogans faded and the last shreds of stinging tear gas wafted away midweek after a demonstration during a civil ser-vants’ strike, business owners took stock of the damage to their opera-tions — and wondered how much longer they could keep going.

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Students play cards as they block a main avenue during a protest outside the Greek Parliament in Athens.

AP

Peru's President Ollanta Humala, top right, poses with family members in this undated family portrait.

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